(Age) A tool used to predict future terror offences is still being used by Home Affairs despite several expert reports and a Supreme Court judge deeming it “extremely poor” at assessing individuals’ risk of committing terror-related crimes.
The “VERA-2R,” widely criticised by a series of reports questioning its efficacy, is still being used by the government and psychologists to assess the ongoing risks of terrorist offenders in considering whether they should be detained beyond their sentence — despite the tool not working.
However, after several reports were made public, courts are applying a more sceptical approach to risk assessments that rely primarily on the Violent Extremist Risk Assessment 2 Revised (VERA-2R).
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